Drums of War with Russia Banging Louder than Ever

The Russian nuclear arsenal is getting a major boost in spending from the Kremlin.

Oct 19

China may be quickly becoming America’s newest “big enemy,” but it won’t replace Russia as Enemy No. 1 of the Deep State and Military-Industrial Complex in the U.S., and tensions are still building between Washington and Moscow.

As TruNews reported Thursday, President Vladimir Putin told an audience at a policy conference in Sochi that his country’s hypersonic missiles would be deployed in the “coming months,” potentially allowing Russia to leapfrog both China and the U.S. in terms of nuclear deterrence capability. The U.S. has no means of preventing a strike from a hypersonic attack, which travels at speeds far greater than Mach 5.

Of the six advanced weapons systems Putin unveiled earlier this year, two of them will be ready for deployment by 2020, according to military intelligence sources who spoke with NBC News. The report didn’t say which two systems would be ready.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute notes that Russia is well into its 10-year military modernization program, which began in 2011, and has now turned its attention to its “nuclear triad”—ground, sea, and air-based delivery systems—“dramatically” increasing its funding for nuclear weapons. In 2016, the most recent year for which budget data is available, spending on acquisition and modernization of Russian nukes has increased by 427 percent since 2010.

Russia now has the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world.

It also has some of the most sophisticated aerial defense systems in the world, and has been exporting that technology, most recently to Syria, which has received S-300 systems in the wake of the downing of a Russian surveillance aircraft during airstrikes by Israel. Military sources in Syria are reporting that specialists are now reprogramming the S-300 aerial defense systems delivered there to prepare them for their local mission, which requires replacing Russian codes with those for the Syrian military.

Israel has strongly condemned the presence of S-300s in Syria and has vowed to destroy them if they pose a threat to their aircraft while engaging Iranian military outposts in the war-torn country. One the Russian specialists have completed their work, which will make them distinctly Syrian, they will leave the country, potentially opening the door for Israel to bomb them without crossing any of Moscow’s so-called “red lines.”

But, a gross miscalculation could lead to a military conflict that drags the U.S. and the West into a full-scale war with Russia.

Outside of the Israel-U.S.-UK machinations for war with Iran, the leaders of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and France are scheduled to meet in Turkey later this month to discuss a final “political settlement” in Syria that could lead to an end to the seven-year civil war. According to reports, the leaders will exchange a number of views, and will hold “bilateral discussions” on the sidelines of the gathering.

Russian officials said “other pressing international issues”—likely a reference to Iran—would also be discussed.

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